January 25, 2024
GENERAL CURTIS LeMAY SIGNED FDC.COMMANDER XX1 BOMBER COMMAND PACIFIC WW2
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GENERAL CURTIS.LeMAY SIGNED FLOWN COVER,4/10/1983,'50TH ANNIVERSAY OF THE START OF THE DESIGN OF THE BOEING B 17 FORTRESS.PHOTOGRAPH AND MINI BIOGRAPHY INSIDE. Curtis Emerson LeMay (November 15, 1906 – October 1, 1990) was a general in the United States Air Force and the vice presidential running mate of American Independent Party presidential candidate George Wallace in 1968. He is credited with designing and implementing an effective, but also controversial, systematic strategic bombing c ampaign in the Pacific theater of World War II . During the war, he was known for planning and executing a massive bombing campaign against cities in Japan and a crippling minelaying campaign in Japan's internal waterways. After the war, he unintentionally initiated the Berlin airlift , then reorganized the Strategic Air Command (SAC) into an effective instrument of nuclear war . He served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force from 1961 until his retirement in 1965.
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